# Mod Functionality: Notification if IP created new account or Ban IP

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mod-functionality-notification-if-ip-created-new-account-or-ban-ip/158835
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 26, 2020, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mod-functionality-notification-if-ip-created-new-account-or-ban-ip/158835 "2020-07-26T11:21:15Z")
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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mod-functionality-notification-if-ip-created-new-account-or-ban-ip/158835/2 "2020-07-26T11:59:54Z")

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> [@pettro](#):
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> notify moderators if a specific IP creates a new account?

Hello!

You have to go through and check their IP.

Perhaps this plugin can help?

> [@Discourse Fingerprint - Browser Fingerprinting Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-browser-fingerprinting-plugin/114890):
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> [Discourse Fingerprint](https://github.com/udan11/discourse-fingerprint) paw_printsDiscourse Fingerprint comes as a tool to community managers in their combat with internet trolls. troll It works by computing a unique identifier (a fingerprint) of each registered user, by taking into consideration over 20 browser characteristics such as user agent, screen resolution, timezone, device memory, etc. When each of these browser characteristics are considered separately, they are not enough to assess whether two users are the same. There is a re…

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